The Official Transformers Collector’s Club has updated with embedded YouTube videos for the Beast Wars prequel, Theft of the Golden Disk. Head on over to the Transformers Club website to see both parts of the movie by clicking on the following link: Fun Publications – Theft of the Golden Disk
Mirage232
I thought it was pretty good for what it is. This video makes me long for the days when we actually had higher standards for a Transformer television show.
Lumpy
yeah, it'd be nice to DL it, burn to a dvd, buy a thin case, and make some custom cover art to add to my transformers dvd shelf…hopefully this happens…
G.B. Blackrock
Actually, since this is being released through the auspices of FP, selling it isn't entirely out of the question. They'd still have to get Hasbro's okay, but we're not talking about "just" a fan production here.
Bendimus Prime
Very cool guys. Thanks so much for all the hard work.
Agreed. Even if this can't be sold due to copyrights, I wonder if they'd put the video files up somewhere for download? I'd love to make a DVD out of this to add to my Beast Wars seasons.
Grimlock_13
Pretty cool. Great for what it was. When Megatron spoke I was like "Holy shit this guy sounds IDENTICAL to David Kaye!"
Liokaiser
Yesssss, that would be great. I would love to get my hands on an exclusive Cryoteck. I enjoyed the video. Watch it a few times with my boys.
Laser_Optimus
Yes. Code of Hero was arguably the best BW episode… no the best Transformers episode ever made though… kind of hard to live up to that kind of awesomeness.
G.B. Blackrock
I'd just like to repeat for emphasis that, failing to get Scott McNeil to do Dinobot (and they actually did ask. If only he had a home recording studio like Kaye does…), I'm glad they didn't go the route of "sound-alikes."
Chaos Prime
Yea, I would have liked to have heard Dinobots voice too. The whole time I was watching it, I kept thinking to myself, I can do Dinobots voice. It rips my throat to shreds at the end of the day, but I can do his voice. LOL!
Foster
FTW.
RandomFerret
Shotoman
I dug it. Obviously, being a fan-project, I'm judging it on a different standard than I would a professionally done cartoon, and I echo sentiments about more voices etc. But I dug it.
Was that Jhiaxus in the hall of statues place?
planetjacker
Interesting. Kinda liked it. Like others have said it would have been nice to have other main character voices, but you do what you can.
I would very much like to see the ransack and skyblast molds in those decos.
PunkyBrew
3DS Max, get it, ASAP. Best 3 grand I ever spent, been using it for 10 years now. Seriously, seven layer awesome cake right there.
Maboroshi
I think that it is a great idea and was fun to watch but is overall poorly executed. What I would expect from something fan-made. All of the speaking parts aside from Kaye sounded like they were just nerds in basements with $5 PC microphones. The animation really could have used more attention to detail with less long awkward moments and parts where the character models just seem to freeze because the animator gave them nothing to do in that moment. Could have been lit a lot better, too, even in a dark setting like that. Sound effects definitely could have been more varied. Music could have matched a lot more. I would have liked more speaking parts, even if they were lifted directly from episodes of Beast Wars.
I feel bad being so negative, though. I'm thankful for the hard work people put into this. The modeling is good and it must have taken forever to do all the animation. It was fun to watch. I just think it needed to be done with people who had a little more training. I still liked it, though. I guess i just critical because I'm an art major going into 3d animation
PunkyBrew
Yikes. I'm trying to think of something positive to say here, but I cannot. Wait, the modeling was pretty good. There, that was positive, right?
I could go into details here about what they did wrong, from a CGI perspective, but lets just say; Keep on modeling, animating, and rendering, and you'll get the hang of it.
Nice effort, keep it up!
Scrapper6
I think this was an interesting addition to the BW universe, but there is one thing I find a little dissapointing, the lightning used really didn't give us any opportunity to admire the full body shots of the character models. Other then that, for what it is and the amount of work/effort that was obviously put into this I say it was 100% cool.
Teletran-1
I realize an insane amount of work had to go into this but I'm really not feelin it. It was neat seeing Megatron again with the right voice but I agree with the guy that pointed out the editing is horrible. It seemed like there were dramatic pauses after every action or piece of dialogue. A lot of stuff seemed to be in slow motion for no reason and there's a lot of floaty animation. I also don't really think it adds anything to the story. We already knew the disk was stolen, and this shows that there were a couple scuffles involved but that's about all we learned.
Optimus Scourge
That was very cool. I gotta watch it again!
destrongerlupus
I'd wager it was suppsed to be Buzzsaw…the Waspinator-repaint on which the GalaxyForce remold was based.
I'm a little surprised we didn't see Longrack at some point, since they modeled his body already and BWII Dirge made it in. The argument could go either way, but it might been cool to have HIM duel with Dinobot.
D/L